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Article: The goods on glyphosate.
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- Farm Journal
- Article date:
- January 15, 2004
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The inside story on how this popular herbicide works
Roundup has become as generic as Kleenex. Even its active ingredient, glyphosate, is becoming a household word. Over the years, you've learned how to take it beyond mere weed control and make it an efficient production system.
Hit the spray window with the right rate, and in a couple of weeks, glyphosate kills everything it touches except the plants engineered to resist it. Sounds easy, but do you really know how and why it works?
Made as a salt, glyphosate dissolves readily in the spray tank. It is a systemic herbicide, which means that after foliar application, it moves throughout the plant ...